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The Great Reform Act of England and Wales receives royal assent.

Israel launches a massive attack against Lebanon in what the Israelis call Operation Accountability, and the Lebanese call the Seven-Day War.

Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.

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